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Tis the season of the Christmas movie on many of our favorite channels. Please share your favorites and if you know when/where they might be on.

An old favorite of mine is an Ed Asner movie from waaaay back in 1977... The Gathering about a dying man (Asner) who wants to make peace with his adult children before he goes. I haven't seen it on cable in years, but it's out of DVD now so maybe it'll show up on TBS or one of other stations.

the Ref with Dennis Leary is another favorite, but not everyone will like his style of humor.

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An old favorite of mine is an Ed Asner movie from waaaay back in 1977... The Gathering about a dying man (Asner) who wants to make peace with his adult children before he goes. I haven't seen it on cable in years, but it's << Snipped bits out >>.

I found a showing of a "The Gathering", Sunday 27th, on 363 starting at midnight. (midnight Sat). It's two hours, but only info is "Religion, Series". So it might be the one, may well not be. I am recording in any event.

I also like some of the corny ABC Family dime-a-dozen Christmas movies, like the one where the woman gets trapped in a snow globe, or where the divorced and/or widowed father loses touch with the spirit of the holiday and the magical housekeeper puts things in motion that make everything right.

Another one I just remembered is The Christmas Box, with Richard Thomas. Sappy, sentimental, refreshing, and rejuvenating.

I also recall a movie that I can NOT remember about a family that donates a tree to Rockefeller Center and there's some discord in the family, or some such. I'll have to try to search for that...

My all-time favorite is Babes in Toyland (1934) with Laurel and Hardy. There is also an edited down version called March of the Wooden Soldiers, which is the one most common one seen on TV. I prefer the b&w original, but the colorized version is OK too.

If we can include Christmas specials in the list, let me highly recommend the somewhat obscure A Claymation Christmas (1987, stop-motion animation) and Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (a Jim Henson production from that group's glory days of the late 1970s).

Babes in Toyland with Laurel & Hardy is a holiday tradition in my family.

There were more that use to be shown at Thanksgiving to kick off the Christmas season that were not Christmas related that I do miss not being aired anymore - Mighty Joe Young, and the two original Kong movies - King Kong and Son of Kong.

If you can find Steven Spielberg's old Amazing Stories tv series, there was a marvelous Christmas episode called, I think, Santa '85 (not sure of the year). We have it on an old deteriorating VHS tape that I really need to get transferred some day ...

If you can find Steven Spielberg's old Amazing Stories tv series, there was a marvelous Christmas episode called, I think, Santa '85 (not sure of the year). We have it on an old deteriorating VHS tape that I really need to get transferred some day ...

The whole 24 episodes are available in DVD format at Amazon, but are not available for streaming there. It does include that episode. If anyone wants it better hurry as there are only 3 left in stock.

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